mahaffee

plural mahaffees

1. alternativeAlternative form of mihaffa.

   ... and had not gone many miles, before we found that the camel we were upon, was too weak to bear our weight much longer; but were unwilling to lose time by stopping to shift the mahaffees; at length the sun began to heat the sandy plains, and the poor creature laid himself down very quietly ...

   1789, Henry Abbott, A Journal, with Occasional Remarks, Made on a Trip from Aleppo to Bussora, across the Grand Desart of Arabia, pages 35-36

plural Mahaffees

1. A surname from Irish, an alternative form of Mahaffey.